| 单词 | predicate |
| 释义 | Related topics: Grammarpred·i·cate1 /ˈpredɪkət/ noun [countable] SLG technical the part of a sentence that makes a statement about the subject, such as ‘swim’ in ‘Fish swim’ and ‘is an artist’ in ‘She is an artist’ 谓语 → subjectExamples from the Corpuspredicate• The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to.• In addition to pronouns and agreeing predicates, person or participant-role is marked in various other ways.• Existence predicates are prime instruments for making such claims explicit.• Usually, conceptual clusterers employ the natural hierarchy of predicates directly, and make no mention of a metric.• The natural rules for this task have conditions which also include the predicate which checks that two things are different.• This predicate is sometimes given in terms of an entity which occurs in goal states and not in others.• A state of the blocks world is portrayed as an assertion, formed with predicate symbols.pred·i·cate2 /ˈpredɪkeɪt/ verb be predicated on/upon something formalCOME FROM/ORIGINATE if an action or event is predicated on a belief or situation, it is based on it or depends on it 基于某事物，取决于某事物 The company’s expansion was predicated on the assumption that sales would rise. 公司的扩张是基于销售额会增长的假设。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuspredicate• It is not individual qualities that we ever have occasion to predicate.• The only meaning of predicating a quality at all, is to affirm a resemblance.• In this sense he was predicating his examination upon the operation of a self-regulating system for both state and private economy.• But we never have occasion to predicate of an object the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us.• It was predicated on a quack cure called powder of sympathy.• Social norms, social expectations, are not predicated on abusive childhoods.• It is not predicated on any such view.• Furthermore, the protection from coercion which the market system provides is predicated upon the widespread dispersion of economic power.Origin predicate2 (1500-1600) Late Latin past participle of praedicare; → PREACHpred·i·cate1 nounpred·i·cate2 verbChineseSyllable the sentence a of Corpus part that |
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